"The beneficiaries of Open Skies driven by the likes of us has been the US economy and that's kindly marginalized in the US3's narrative," Clark told us. "We asked them to show competitive harm, but they won't because they can't."

"They haven't got a leg to stand on so they go after this theater, this noise," he added. "They put big banners up at the Atlanta Airport."

Clark went on to compare the tactics employed by his rivals to the antics of a "three-year-old at the playground."

Emirates and US airlines working together is good for everyone

Ultimately, the Emirates president believes cooperation between the two warring factions could be mutually beneficial.

"It seems to be lost on them that this can work and make everybody happy," he said. "For goodness sake, all of the business we bring across (the ocean). Don't you think they'd want to go other places than Chicago?"

Clark believes connecting traffic from Emirates could help American's bottom line in Dallas and Chicago or United's in Houston.

"Think about the feed we do give to my friend Robin Hayes who runs JetBlue in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, New York, and Boston," Clark added. "And on the other side, I've got Brad Tilden with Alaska on Seattle and all the points down there."

A JetBlue Airbus A321. JetBlue As result, by not working together, American, Delta, and United are effectively leaving free money on the table.

Clarks wishes the US3 could realize that "when one of those Airbus A380s lands in New York, the feed going out to multiple points in the US could be mine."

"It's just a matter of turning on the tap," he added.

Unfortunately, the US carriers have decided to go in the opposite direction by refusing to allow Emirates passengers to connect onto their flights.